Raul Aguirre

Director of Service Coachella Valley Water District

Mr. Aguirre has been employed by the Coachella Valley Water District for over 30 years and has served as the Director of Service since 2006. Prior to that he was the Assistant Service Director. He started at CVWD in 1985 and worked his way up through the ranks in various departments and in 2000 became the Meter Reader Supervisor in charge of field service customer requests.

Mr. Aguirre has over 30 years of customer service experience and training, with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Service Delivery, employee engagement, Budgeting, Performance Improvement, Customer Support, and Operations Management.

He has served as an American Water Works Association committee member and holds a Grade II in Water Distribution from the State of California Health Department. He has received a certificate in Supervision and Management from College of the Desert where he served on the College of Business/Management Advisory committee, completed the Supervision and Leadership program with the University of California, Riverside, American management associations MBA program and has also completed the course on Water/Wastewater Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is active in community service through coaching youth sports and high school Baseball teams.